SMOKEPRACTICE changelog

Maps open on what you can see, and your matches keep their place. — 3 October 2026

• Maps open sooner. A map used to be downloaded whole before you could stand in it, and most of that wait was its textures rather than its shape. Mirage is three quarters of a million triangles and they become a map in about a second; the 312 pictures painted on them were the rest. So the map now arrives at a lower resolution and sharpens behind you while you walk it. Every triangle is there from the first frame, so a lineup you throw in the first second lands exactly where it always did.
• And they stopped downloading themselves three times. Two parts of the loader worked out the name of a small file by editing the map's own filename, and that name changed a while ago. Both quietly asked for the whole map instead, every single time a map opened. Mirage was fetching 56 MB it threw away, inferno 133 MB. Cache and nuke also get their colour and shading back, which had not been applied since the rename and which nothing said anything about.
• Your matches, with the round you want. The list of matches now carries what keeps happening across them, underneath, where you are deciding what to open rather than at the bottom of something you have already read. And each match offers its round straight from the card, so the round that went wrong is one press away instead of a match and a scroll.
• Next: the utility coach. The reading already names every throw and what it cost you. Next it learns timing: a smoke that arrived after the entry, a molotov thrown at an empty corner, a flash nobody could use. Said as a mistake only where the demo proves it, and as something worth looking at where it does not.

Your match, talked through the way a coach would. — 2 October 2026

• It comments on everything you did. Every grenade gets a word. Land one where the throw we teach lands and it says so and says why. Miss and it names the throw it should have been, how far off you were in metres, and offers it to learn. Nothing is guessed: the catalogue is what decides, so it is a measurement rather than an opinion.
• It tells you why you went down. Three things explain most deaths and every one of them was on your own screen: what your health was going in, whether you arrived at a full run, and whether you had thrown any of what you bought. It never tells you where the other side was, because you could not see that either.
• The round, read out loud. In the order it happened. What you threw and where, how far you were from your own side, and how it ended. Then the verdict, so the verdict has something to sit on.
• The radar shows the round, not a diagram. Everybody alive, which way they are looking, how much health they have, every grenade at the size it covers with the game's own art, the bomb wherever it is, and a corner that says who fell to what.
• Three things to work on, not fifteen to read. The reading ends in a plan: the biggest thing first, as a share of your deaths rather than a count, so it can be compared to your next match. Each line has a door. A throw to go and practise, a minute of reading built out of your own rounds, or one sentence to carry in.
• Try it and tell us where it is wrong. Three matches a month while this is in beta, and the example on the landing opens for anybody without signing in. If it says something about a round that does not match what you remember, that is the thing worth reporting: most of what was fixed this week came from somebody saying exactly that.

It stopped being a report and started being a coach. — 1 October 2026

• Watch the round back, with the coaching on it. A round plays back on the radar: everybody who was alive, which way they were looking, every grenade drawn at the size it covers, and the bomb. It stops where something is worth saying, dims the people it is not about, and says it.
• It tells you how sure it is. Every finding carries one of three words. Mistake where the fact settles it, Opportunity where a better option existed and the round might still justify what happened, and Worth reviewing where you know something the demo does not. No page should claim to know more about a round of Counter-Strike than it does.
• Three things to do, not fifteen things to read. The reading now ends in a plan: the biggest thing first, as a share rather than a count, with a door on every line. A throw to go and practise, a minute of reading built out of your own rounds, or one sentence to carry into the next match.
• Lessons for the things you cannot practise. Trading, utility timing, flashes and entries. Short, written around your own numbers, and they exist because a finding about where you stood used to offer you a smoke.

Your last match. Your next practice session. — 27 September 2026

• From the round to the throwing spot. Review where your utility landed and what you were still holding when you died. Get suggested lineups linked to those moments, then jump into the map to practise. A different landing is a reason to look closer, not automatic proof of a bad throw.
• Learn it. Hide the help. Land it again.. Land three throws with the position marker, aim dot and instructions. Then land three in a row from memory, with the help hidden. Miss and the memory streak restarts. Your aim resets between attempts, so each throw starts with you finding the angle again.
• See what your utility actually did. Enemies and teammates blinded per flash. Average enemy blind time. The value of utility left in your inventory when you died. Each stat explains what it counts, so you can check the numbers before deciding what to work on.
• One more throw now. The rest later.. Your practice progress stays with the match on your account. Stop when you need to and return to the unfinished exercises. The demo file is processed locally; your analysis summary and practice progress are saved to your account.
• Try the beta. More is on the way.. Three demo analyses per month in the free beta. Practise the exercises from that match as often as you like. PRO is in the works, with more demo analyses per month.

Bring your last match — 26 September 2026

• Demo analysis is open to everyone. Drop in a CS2 demo and it reads your utility right where the file already is. The file is never sent anywhere; how long it takes depends on the match and the machine. What died in your hands, what blinded nobody, what landed nowhere near a lineup we teach, then those observations become a session on the real map.
• FACEIT, connected. Link your account and your matches list themselves, with the score and the scoreboard, so you pick the round you remember instead of hunting through a folder. Grab the demo from the match room and drop it in — it already knows which player is you.
• Free now, PRO soon. Three demos a month while it is in beta, and your match is drawn on the radar for Mirage and Dust 2 so far. PRO lifts the limit.

Maps that open sooner, and the two keys nobody knew were there — 24 September 2026

• Work out a lineup of your own. Look at the place you want the utility and press M to mark it, then stand anywhere and press N: it solves the throw backwards, draws the dot to put your crosshair on and the flight it expects, and says so when nothing from that spot reaches. SHIFT for a medium throw, ALT for a lob. Both keys have worked on every map since July and were written down nowhere, which for anybody who had not gone looking in the key list is the same as not having them.
• Maps open sooner. The download starts the moment you point at a map rather than when you press play, so by the time you have chosen a side most of it is already there. Every map also ships a simplified mesh now, which took the exports from 487 MB to 437 without changing what you see. And the megabytes on the loading screen are the ones the card promised, counted from the files instead of typed in by hand.
• The grenades. Smoke is CS2's own colour instead of grey, and several of them in one place stop multiplying what they cost to draw, which is where it used to stutter. A molotov breaks on the floor it lands on rather than bouncing first. Your hand is not empty for a second while the next grenade comes up. And the grenades themselves stopped looking washed out, which was the sky being turned up for metal and left up for them.
• Fixed. On a phone the pause sheet sat underneath the map, so MAIN MENU could not be reached. Every map's size badge was understating the real download, by half a megabyte on the best of them and seven and a half on the worst. The lineup instructions name the move now, JUMPTHROW, rather than the key it happens to be bound to, and the challenge stops telling you to stand somewhere once you are standing there. The execute pages are gone with the feature, and their old links send you to the map instead of a dead end.

Twenty knives, and the HE grenade — 13 September 2026

• Every CS2 knife. All twenty of them, the real models with the game's own draw, inspect and slash. Press 5 to take one out, F to inspect it, Q to go back to the grenade. You pick which one where you pick the map, and again in the pause menu while you are on one. It changes nothing about where a smoke lands. It is here because an hour of practice should feel like the game you are practising for.
• The HE grenade. HE is in the rotation now, on 4, with its own draw, pin pull and throw instead of the smoke's borrowed ones. The molotov finally uses its own clips too. Both fly on the same physics as everything else here. To be straight about it, there are no HE lineups yet: 685 smokes, 175 flashes and 190 molotovs are marked and scored, and the HE can be thrown and watched while we work on the rest.
• Fixed. Leaving a map for the main menu left the mouse locked to the game, so the front page had no cursor on it until you pressed ESC again. It also left pieces of the game drawn over that page: the map view, the recipe on the floor, the mode chip and the combo counter. Dust2 had a hole in the T side arch wall you could see the road through. Two smaller things while we were in there: settings is a full page now instead of a sheet that scrolled inside itself, and the map list has a tenth tile, SURPRISE ME, which opens one of the thousand lineups for when you do not want to choose.

Levels, and every lineup on the map — 8 September 2026

• You have a level now. It counts the lineups you can actually land. Thirty XP the first time one lands, sixty when you master it, three passes in a row on the same one, because one hit in five is luck, and two hundred for a map you know. Training counts the same as a scored run. Every price is paid once, so no amount of throwing the same smoke moves it, and nothing ever goes down: it is a record of what you have learned. It is on your profile, in the pause menu and beside your name on the front page.
• See every lineup on the map. Mirage and Dust2 open with the real in-game radar. Pick the place you want the smoke to LAND, window, connector, short, and it shows every lineup that lands there and where each one is thrown from. It used to make you pick a throw and find out afterwards where it went, which is the wrong way round. Dust2 uses the game's own radar image, aligned against the map's spawn positions rather than eyeballed, so the dots sit where they should. The other seven maps follow if this is right.
• The aim gets finer as you close in. Coming onto the aim dot, the view eases down to a quarter speed so the last fraction of a degree is easy to hold. It never moves your aim, away from the dot is slowed exactly as much as towards it, and it eases rather than switching, so there is no edge to catch on. Z does the same by hand anywhere, and SETTINGS turns it off for anyone who wants every movement here to match every movement in game.

Your progress follows you now — 20 August 2026

• Sign in with Steam. Two clicks, no password, no email address. Everything you had was living in one browser, every lineup you had landed, every run, your streak, and clearing its data or picking up your phone was the end of it. Now it sits on your account, and every scored run goes there as you play. Sign in with Steam
• A profile that says where you are. PROFILE on the home screen. Your utility rating, what you have landed out of what you have thrown, the best run you have set on each map, your streak and every day you have played. And the part it is actually for: which map is your weakest, and which lineups to go and fix.
• Your history comes with you, once. The first time you sign in it asks whether to bring what is in this browser into the account. Once, so it is worth answering from the browser you actually play in.
• Today can be beaten. A daily you finished 3 out of 5 is no longer stuck at three: play it again and the day keeps your best. The streak still counts the day rather than the attempt.

Your crosshair, your keys, your hands — 17 August 2026

• Your own crosshair, straight out of CS2. Paste the share code the game gives you, or a pro's from any settings site, and it is your crosshair here: size, thickness, gap, outline, dot, T style, colour and alpha. The raw cl_crosshair block from the console works too. Every value is on a slider next to a live preview, because the app draws its crosshair in a browser rather than in the game engine, so it is a close match rather than an identical one. The long lines that appear while you hold a throw take the colour and keep their shape.
• Every key can be moved, not just the throw. WASD is not everybody's: left-handers, AZERTY, ESDF, or a hand that simply does not reach. All twenty-three actions can be rebound, keys are bound by their place on the board rather than the letter printed on them, and one key only ever does one thing, taking a bound key leaves its old action visibly without one. Wherever the app names a key, it now names the key YOU chose: the top strip, the recipe panel, the guide, and the challenge's own instructions.
• Where the hands sit. The viewmodel moves: right, up, forward, and its size. It is the other half of a shooter's screen that is nobody else's business, and the app used to have one opinion about it.
• All of it before anything downloads. SETTINGS on the home screen, next to HELP. A crosshair, a sensitivity and a set of keys are what you arrive already having, and a map is 40-60 MB, waiting for that download before you can paste a crosshair means the first round is played with somebody else's hands. Everything is kept in this browser, with no account to make.
• The smoke cam is picked by looking at it. CORNER WINDOW or FULLSCREEN used to be two identical buttons and a sentence explaining the difference. It is two pictures of the actual thing now, side by side.
• The challenge says what to watch, and how to get on with it. A preview is three beats, the ground he stands on, what he aims at, where it lands, and which one you were looking at was the smallest type on the screen. It sits above the crosshair now, at the size of an instruction, with 1-2-3 so a cut to his eyes reads as step two rather than the clip starting over. The keys were always there and the screen never said so: A and D page the five, SPACE starts the run. The green ring also stopped washing a quarter of the frame green on the one beat whose job is to show you a piece of ground.
• The daily says that it is a daily. A numbered set, the same five for everybody, and a streak for coming back, all of which was written down in exactly one place nobody reaches. The offer in the map names the day and what a streak costs to drop, and the home screen says there is a new five every day.

A menu that asks one thing at a time — 12 August 2026

• Pick how you play, then pick a map. The first screen used to carry everything at once: three modes, a side toggle, then nine full-width map banners, then the copy, so the click that starts the game was three screens of scrolling down. Now it asks the two questions it needs, in order, and every map fits on one screen.
• A loading screen worth looking at. A map is 40-60 MB, which is the longest look anybody takes at this app, so it now gets the map's own art across the whole screen. The numbers are the same ones as before, how far along, what it is doing, how many MB, because a pretty screen that hides a stall is worse than the plain one.
• The pause menu has tabs. It was one column of eleven unrelated sections, mode next to sensitivity next to a spawn radar next to a teleport box, and finding any of them meant scrolling past all the others. Four groups now: PLAY, AIM & VIEW, LINEUPS, HELP. Leaving CHALLENGE from inside a map also gives the map back instead of dropping you on the menu with the download to do again.
• A spot with several lineups no longer interrupts you. Looking at the mark used to open the card slider, which releases the mouse so arriving somewhere froze the view until you had clicked through a preview you never asked for. The recipe panel lists what else is on the spot, the wheel moves between them, and TAB opens the cards when you want them. On a phone the strip says how many are here and the list is a tap.
• Previews record the run-up, and stopped moving the lineup. A saved preview now starts from the moment you were standing in the ring with the crosshair on the dot, and keeps everything after it, including a run-up that leaves both behind. And re-recording one can no longer move the lineup: where you stand is written down with the lineup instead of being read back out of the last recording.
• Shadows join the automatic quality ladder. If frames stay slow the app already steps the resolution down. It now continues past that, softer shadows to hard ones, then off, because the shadow pass costs the same no matter how small the buffer gets, which is why dropping the resolution alone did nothing for some people.

Lineups, executes, and a daily you can share — 9 August 2026

• 1057 lineups, on all nine maps. Smokes, flashes and molotovs. Every one of them was flown through the physics the app ships with before it was let in, anything that broke in the air, never landed, or dropped at the thrower's feet was thrown out.
• 53 executes. A written set thrown from ONE spot, in order, on a clock with a par time: the smokes cover the site, the molotov burns the corner somebody is sitting in, the flash goes in last. T sets take a site, CT sets hold or retake one.
• A daily you can share. Five lineups drawn from the date, the same for everyone that day, with a streak for coming back. Every run now ends with a row of squares you can paste into Discord or anywhere else.
• Progress on the map cards. The landing says how much of each map you have actually got. A lineup counts as MASTERED after three passes in a row, not three ever, because one hit in five attempts is luck and not a lineup you can be relied on to throw.
• Two bugs worth naming. The offline importer built cache and vertigo with an almost empty grenade collider, so every throw fell through the world; and two different throws sharing a name quietly overwrote each other. Both fixed, both had eaten lineups that are now back.

Flash and molotov — 6 August 2026

• Two more utilities, on the same arc as the smoke. The throw is identical; the ending is not. A bottle breaks on the first thing it touches, a flash pops in the air, a smoke rolls past both.
• The models, and the fire. CS2's own flame instead of cones, black smoke off the top of it, and the molotov held in two hands by the game's own animation, with the Zippo cut out of the bottle and struck on the throw.
• A utility switch you can reach on a phone. And nothing left down either edge of the screen, because a phone has no free side.

Challenges — 3 August 2026

• The mode where the markers come off. Training draws you a ring and a dot, so you cannot miss and there is nothing to score. Challenge takes all of it away and leaves one thing standing: what has to be covered.
• Study, then run. One card per throw, each playing that throw on loop in the world behind it, untimed, for as long as you like. Then the previews stop and each one is a single attempt.
• A lineup is a smoke that ARRIVES a certain way. Landing in the right place is not enough: it has to come in on the same line and from range, so a smoke dropped at your feet cannot pass for one thrown across the map.

The ghost — 1 August 2026

• Watch the throw, do not read about it. Seven numbers are a frozen pose: a run-up, a strafe jumpthrow and a crouched throw all flatten into the same record. The ghost replays the recording instead, his eyes, his keys lighting up frame by frame, at quarter speed if you want it.
• Freestyle, training and a recipe you can follow without the ghost. Numbered steps for the spot, the aim and the throw, for when you would rather read it than watch it.

A real page per map and per lineup — 30 July 2026

• One page for nine maps became a page each. Every map and every lineup has its own address, its own preview card when shared, and its own place in search, all loading the same bundle, so there is nothing extra to download.
• VERIFIED and BETA on the cards. Verified means the physics was checked against pro demos on that map. Beta means real geometry and a playable map, but a lineup can land off. Saying so up front costs less than being found out.

Nine maps — 27 July 2026

• Ancient, anubis, cache, overpass and vertigo. Joining mirage, dust2, inferno and nuke, the game's real geometry and its real collision hulls, not a remake.
• It stopped crashing phones. KTX2 textures on every map, and an analog stick instead of the D-pad, so how far you push is how fast you move, which is the difference between a run-up smoke and a standing one.